Sarah Ferguson Has Her Sights Set on an Oscar

The Queen of England's granddaughter Zara Phillips has gotten in a spot of trouble after breaking Burghley Horse Trial rules by letting her dogs off their leads. Though regulations state that dogs must be kept on leashes, Zara let pooches Spey and Corley run free on the cross-country courses. The infringement was a minor one, but Zara will really be in the doghouse if her pets start acting like those of her mother, the Princess Royal. Lest we forget that in 2002 Princess Anne was forced to pay more than $1,600 in fines and compensation after her English bull terrier Dotty attacked two children in Windsor Park. One year later, Dotty struck again when she mauled one of the Queen's beloved corgis, which had to be put down as a result of the attack.The Duchess of York is harboring Academy Award ambitions for The Young Victoria, for which she was an associate producer. "To win an Oscar
would be a delight and yes, I think I am proud enough of the movie to say that," she said in a recent interview. Sarah Ferguson helped secure financial backing for the historical flick and even managed to land her daughter Princess Beatrice some screen time. (Appropriately, Queen Victoria is Beatrice's great-great-great-great-grandmother.)

Dutch officials continued to search for a motive behind the attack on the Dutch royal family during a Queen's Day parade last April that killed several onlookers. The man, who drove his car into a crowd of supporters and later died in the hospital from his injuries, had apparently recently lost his job and told a police officer at the scene that he targeted the royal family because he felt Prince Willem-Alexander was a fascist and racist.

Adorable pictures have surfaced of a young fan bestowing Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Maritwith a handmade crown. The enormously popular princess was visiting southern Norway with husband, Crown Prince Haakon, when the young supporter crowned her with what we can only assume is the royal equivalent of a macaroni necklace.